The Process Of Making Changes To The Immigration Rules

As many readers will be aware, on 04 December 2023, the Home Secretary James Cleverly announced that the financial threshold for family visas would change to £38,700. Then on 21 December 2023, following much criticism of a policy that will mean only 40% of people will be able to afford to have family members join them in the UK, the Government altered its plans, announcing that the threshold would first be raised to £29,000. This change came into force on 11 April 2024; those who already have family visas, or who submitted their online applications before this date, will continue to have their applications and extension applications assessed against the old threshold of £18,600. The Government plans to raise the financial threshold to around £34,500 at an unspecified time later in 2024, and to around £38,700 "by early 2025".